THE WILDCATS KILLED THE WOLVERINES FOR THE 2017/2018 NCAA MEN'S COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
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Willemstad, Curacao. The 2017/2018 NCAA men’s collegiate basketball national championship at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, April 2, 2018, hosted the 33 wins/7 losses, #3 seeded Michigan Wolverines, final four champions out of the South bracket; coached by 799-coaching wins John Beilein, versus the #1 ranked Villanova Wildcats at 35-4, win-loss record, champions from the final four East bracket and coached by George Clooney look-alike, Jay Wright; who was going for his second championship in three years.
The national anthem by the US Air Force opened the Final Four Championship ceremony, and a moment of silence was observed to remember Dr Martin Luther King’s death.
First Half Summary of Championship Game
Winning the tip-off and #1, Jalen Brunson, Wildcats junior guard, threw in the first points of the game, which was immediately and dominantly answered back by the Wolverines with two from Moe Wagner, again and again. Michigan dominated the first seven minutes with good defensive stops, steals and conversions, and block shots. After withstanding the storm of 18 minutes of intense play, the Wildcats timed the game and never lost control of the lead again.
Donte DiVincenzo (DD), the sixth man on the bench for Villanova kept the dagger sharp and near the Wolverines, doing all that was needed on the defense, recovery and blocks, block-out and denials, and on the offensive end with that quick first step drive to the hoop, or long range shooting down deep from the three-point range, Monday night was DD’s night to shine and he did like a supernova. The first half came to a close with an assist and 3-pointer from Brunson.
Second Half of Championship Game
At the start of the second half, Villanova came out aggressively and with an elevated attack mentality of “knock down, keep down and oppress” Michigan’s will to fight back, with team captain Jalen Brunson sparking the fire.
At 11:58 to play. Villanova boasted a 15-point lead at 38-53.
At 9:30 to go, the point gap spread (PGS) was virtually the same but with a quick break away for a deuce followed with Delaware sophomore Donte DiVincenzo’s repeated back to back threes, helped strangled the last breath left in the Wolverines’ comeback attack attempt with a 44-62 lead.
Eric Paschall fouled Wolverines sophomore guard Zavier Simpson on a drive to the hoop that followed with a missed free throw on opposite ends of the court.
At the seven-minute mark, the score was 48-62 and DiVincenzo chipped in a couple to add, Michigan answered back on the opposite end with a pair of points on the free line. Wildcats junior guard Mikal Bridges then came down with a three-pointer in transition to put the game further out of reach for a Wolverines comeback, at 50-67.
At 5:30 left in regulation play, the Wildcats stretched to their largest lead at 19. The first goal tending of the game gave senior Wolverines’ guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman a couple of points and a cut into the lead to 15 points.
Junior guard Charles Matthews fouled out with less than 3:30 left in championship regulation play and the lead at an overbearing 20 PGS in favor of Villanova.
Senior guard Jalen Brunson, the AP player of the year, checked into the game only to have two quick turnovers at his hands, with the Wolverines capitalizing on it and cutting into the lead..
At 2:30 left in regulation play in the championship game the score was 58-77, and it was clear that what the Wolverines could not do from the start of the second half, it was doubtful could be done in less than two minutes.
With the final ten seconds left before the fat lady sang, Villanova had a decisive lead at 62-79 and sophomore Donte DiVincenzo, the games Most Outstanding Player (MOP) of the final championship game, walked across midcourt uncontested and untouched, as the obvious became reality, DiVincenzo hurled the game ball into the air, and the torture was over!
The Villanova Wildcats and Donte DiVincenzo had mangled the Wolverines, so savagely and brutally, that many Curasalenos watching the game on Monday night, were happy the game was finally over.
Christian, an avid basketball, player, enthusiast and apparent leader of the so-called “Curasaleno Wolverine Pack”, emphatically declared, “This is the worst slashing that I have ever seen in the Final Four, because the Wildcats could have gone for the jugular at anytime it seemed.” Still, another final four spectator added, “That was like watching Friday the 13th and it’s actually Friday the 13th.”
In Curacao, basketball seems to cross the gender line as one transgender man, who called himself Harrison Mary, said, “I am glad it’s all over, but now, I am a Donte DiVincenzo fan, yeah ginger!”
Analysis of the Villanova Wildcats Victory over the Michigan Wolverines
Red shirt sophomore from Delaware, Donte DiVincenzo, who was named the Most Outstanding Player of the finals, was undoubtedly the secret weapon that dismantled the Michigan Wolverines, John Beilein’s coaching strategy and the NCAA history books.
The successive performance comparison percentage of first to second half for Michigan Wolverines was 82.35 percent, whereas that of Villanova Wildcats was a little over 88 percent and sharing a differential of approximately 5-3/4 percent.
In the first half, Villanova out-performed Michigan by a factor of 1.32 in the first half and that performance level dropped off by almost seven percent for the second half. It seemed difficult to believe but the Wildcats actually cut the second half lead and that was without the necessary adjustments. Let’s analyze this, at the end of the first half the score was 28-37 in favour of Villanova and at the end of the game the scoring was 34-42 in favour of Villanova Wildcats.
This game was won based on coaching strategy, coaching savvy, will and authority and most of all respect of the players for their coaching staff in that they knew what was best for the team, by recognizing what was working and what works, what chemistry clicked on the court and what team chemistry didn’t have the bonding power to overcome the forces.
This is the reason Jay Wright stood on the winners’ stage, due to preparation and execution. Villanova adapted and then evolved to be a two-edged sword to the Wolverines. Coach Wright was not afraid to sit out his star player Jalen Brunson and, as a matter of fact, it was the best decision that was made. The team was tight but functioning under Jalen’s leadership, though strong they were lacking that striking power because of the dominating on the court character of Jalen Brunson. He was their friend, his father played NBA and he had the NBA coded genetics for the game, but genetics does not answer the call to hard work and perseverance, dedication and the will to succeed above all needs.
Jordan, Chamberlain, Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal and Lebron James, they didn’t have a “NBA father”, but they did have raw crude talent that they fine tuned with leadership skills and ability coupled with complete dedication to winning and becoming the best is what separated them from the rest and made them the best.
Now there are exceptions to the rule, like the Golden State’s duo of Thompson and Curry, but those are the exceptions not the norm! This was most evident when Donte DiVincenzo’s efficiency rating dropped when Brunson would re-enter the game in the NCAA Championship. Coach Wright probably saw it a mile away but needed his players’ confidence now and tomorrow to be high, but scouting reports looking to draft him have started to murmur disinterest, which gives an unfavourable drafting position in the NBA.
I personally think he needs a lot of work to be a high calibre NBA player, but he is definitely no Jason Kidd; now he may have a high basketball intelligence, and a good team player mentality for a coach who can manage him, but he has got a lot of work to put in, in order to be competitive at the NBA level.
Let’s look at the analytical graph above to understand:
Equation A: Equation of Activity (MW) [Michigan Wolverines] = 0.834*x + 2.83
Equation B: Equation of Activity (VW) [Villanova Wildcats] = 1.25*x -3.33
Equation 1.0: y(MW) Imaginary = 2.60552371*x + 0.6396666667
Equation 2.0: y(MW) Reality = 0.834*x + 2.83
Equation 3.0: y(MW) Effort = 1.77152371*x +(-2.190333333)
Equation 4.0: y(MW) Effort = 1.77*x – 2.19
Equation 4.1: y(MW) Effort = 1.77x – 2.19
The analytical graph capitalizes on the concept in a mathematical term that, if elucidated, shows that the Wolverines needed an effort of 1.77x-2.19, in order to win the game at 80 points. However hypothetical, the equation is not reactive in concept, in that it does not illustrate what Villanova’s response would have been to elucidate a winning effort. Therefore, based on those premises it is easy to see why Jay Wright stood in the winner’s circle and among the elite in collegiate basketball coaching and to further illustrate that let’s look at see what the Wolverines could have and should have done.
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Coach John Beilein should have:
• Tried and stop the hemorrhaging by calling timeouts to psychologically realign his team to the common purpose: “win the game”.
• Develop a game plan that capitalized on Villanova’s weaknesses and debilitated their strength, (the Kansas University semi-finals was a perfect scenario).
• Become more adaptable and adjustable with a deeper bench level and talent specialization, three-point threat and a defensive Fort Knox type of player. (The team did well but failed to adapt, defensively and slow to react offensively; where was the sense of urgency?)
• He should have known that Donte DiVincenzo was a threat that needed to be neutralized (very badly executed).
• He should have strategize and hoped that Jay Wright would not have recognized the chess strategy that would keep Brunson on the court. (Instead, Wright recognized it and benched him). Keeping Brunson off the court was the worst mistake/error that Coach Beilein could have fathomed, because in that championship game on April 2, the Wildcats did not seem to be a better team with Brunson on the court. (The errant inbound pass by Donte gives proof, and the wide open lay-up to put him in double figures, were proof).
The national anthem by the US Air Force opened the Final Four Championship ceremony, and a moment of silence was observed to remember Dr Martin Luther King’s death.
First Half Summary of Championship Game
Winning the tip-off and #1, Jalen Brunson, Wildcats junior guard, threw in the first points of the game, which was immediately and dominantly answered back by the Wolverines with two from Moe Wagner, again and again. Michigan dominated the first seven minutes with good defensive stops, steals and conversions, and block shots. After withstanding the storm of 18 minutes of intense play, the Wildcats timed the game and never lost control of the lead again.
Donte DiVincenzo (DD), the sixth man on the bench for Villanova kept the dagger sharp and near the Wolverines, doing all that was needed on the defense, recovery and blocks, block-out and denials, and on the offensive end with that quick first step drive to the hoop, or long range shooting down deep from the three-point range, Monday night was DD’s night to shine and he did like a supernova. The first half came to a close with an assist and 3-pointer from Brunson.
Second Half of Championship Game
At the start of the second half, Villanova came out aggressively and with an elevated attack mentality of “knock down, keep down and oppress” Michigan’s will to fight back, with team captain Jalen Brunson sparking the fire.
At 11:58 to play. Villanova boasted a 15-point lead at 38-53.
At 9:30 to go, the point gap spread (PGS) was virtually the same but with a quick break away for a deuce followed with Delaware sophomore Donte DiVincenzo’s repeated back to back threes, helped strangled the last breath left in the Wolverines’ comeback attack attempt with a 44-62 lead.
Eric Paschall fouled Wolverines sophomore guard Zavier Simpson on a drive to the hoop that followed with a missed free throw on opposite ends of the court.
At the seven-minute mark, the score was 48-62 and DiVincenzo chipped in a couple to add, Michigan answered back on the opposite end with a pair of points on the free line. Wildcats junior guard Mikal Bridges then came down with a three-pointer in transition to put the game further out of reach for a Wolverines comeback, at 50-67.
At 5:30 left in regulation play, the Wildcats stretched to their largest lead at 19. The first goal tending of the game gave senior Wolverines’ guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman a couple of points and a cut into the lead to 15 points.
Junior guard Charles Matthews fouled out with less than 3:30 left in championship regulation play and the lead at an overbearing 20 PGS in favor of Villanova.
Senior guard Jalen Brunson, the AP player of the year, checked into the game only to have two quick turnovers at his hands, with the Wolverines capitalizing on it and cutting into the lead..
At 2:30 left in regulation play in the championship game the score was 58-77, and it was clear that what the Wolverines could not do from the start of the second half, it was doubtful could be done in less than two minutes.
With the final ten seconds left before the fat lady sang, Villanova had a decisive lead at 62-79 and sophomore Donte DiVincenzo, the games Most Outstanding Player (MOP) of the final championship game, walked across midcourt uncontested and untouched, as the obvious became reality, DiVincenzo hurled the game ball into the air, and the torture was over!
The Villanova Wildcats and Donte DiVincenzo had mangled the Wolverines, so savagely and brutally, that many Curasalenos watching the game on Monday night, were happy the game was finally over.
Christian, an avid basketball, player, enthusiast and apparent leader of the so-called “Curasaleno Wolverine Pack”, emphatically declared, “This is the worst slashing that I have ever seen in the Final Four, because the Wildcats could have gone for the jugular at anytime it seemed.” Still, another final four spectator added, “That was like watching Friday the 13th and it’s actually Friday the 13th.”
In Curacao, basketball seems to cross the gender line as one transgender man, who called himself Harrison Mary, said, “I am glad it’s all over, but now, I am a Donte DiVincenzo fan, yeah ginger!”
Analysis of the Villanova Wildcats Victory over the Michigan Wolverines
Red shirt sophomore from Delaware, Donte DiVincenzo, who was named the Most Outstanding Player of the finals, was undoubtedly the secret weapon that dismantled the Michigan Wolverines, John Beilein’s coaching strategy and the NCAA history books.
The successive performance comparison percentage of first to second half for Michigan Wolverines was 82.35 percent, whereas that of Villanova Wildcats was a little over 88 percent and sharing a differential of approximately 5-3/4 percent.
In the first half, Villanova out-performed Michigan by a factor of 1.32 in the first half and that performance level dropped off by almost seven percent for the second half. It seemed difficult to believe but the Wildcats actually cut the second half lead and that was without the necessary adjustments. Let’s analyze this, at the end of the first half the score was 28-37 in favour of Villanova and at the end of the game the scoring was 34-42 in favour of Villanova Wildcats.
This game was won based on coaching strategy, coaching savvy, will and authority and most of all respect of the players for their coaching staff in that they knew what was best for the team, by recognizing what was working and what works, what chemistry clicked on the court and what team chemistry didn’t have the bonding power to overcome the forces.
This is the reason Jay Wright stood on the winners’ stage, due to preparation and execution. Villanova adapted and then evolved to be a two-edged sword to the Wolverines. Coach Wright was not afraid to sit out his star player Jalen Brunson and, as a matter of fact, it was the best decision that was made. The team was tight but functioning under Jalen’s leadership, though strong they were lacking that striking power because of the dominating on the court character of Jalen Brunson. He was their friend, his father played NBA and he had the NBA coded genetics for the game, but genetics does not answer the call to hard work and perseverance, dedication and the will to succeed above all needs.
Jordan, Chamberlain, Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal and Lebron James, they didn’t have a “NBA father”, but they did have raw crude talent that they fine tuned with leadership skills and ability coupled with complete dedication to winning and becoming the best is what separated them from the rest and made them the best.
Now there are exceptions to the rule, like the Golden State’s duo of Thompson and Curry, but those are the exceptions not the norm! This was most evident when Donte DiVincenzo’s efficiency rating dropped when Brunson would re-enter the game in the NCAA Championship. Coach Wright probably saw it a mile away but needed his players’ confidence now and tomorrow to be high, but scouting reports looking to draft him have started to murmur disinterest, which gives an unfavourable drafting position in the NBA.
I personally think he needs a lot of work to be a high calibre NBA player, but he is definitely no Jason Kidd; now he may have a high basketball intelligence, and a good team player mentality for a coach who can manage him, but he has got a lot of work to put in, in order to be competitive at the NBA level.
Equation A: Equation of Activity (MW) [Michigan Wolverines] = 0.834*x + 2.83
Equation B: Equation of Activity (VW) [Villanova Wildcats] = 1.25*x -3.33
Equation 1.0: y(MW) Imaginary = 2.60552371*x + 0.6396666667
Equation 2.0: y(MW) Reality = 0.834*x + 2.83
Equation 3.0: y(MW) Effort = 1.77152371*x +(-2.190333333)
Equation 4.0: y(MW) Effort = 1.77*x – 2.19
Equation 4.1: y(MW) Effort = 1.77x – 2.19
The analytical graph capitalizes on the concept in a mathematical term that, if elucidated, shows that the Wolverines needed an effort of 1.77x-2.19, in order to win the game at 80 points. However hypothetical, the equation is not reactive in concept, in that it does not illustrate what Villanova’s response would have been to elucidate a winning effort. Therefore, based on those premises it is easy to see why Jay Wright stood in the winner’s circle and among the elite in collegiate basketball coaching and to further illustrate that let’s look at see what the Wolverines could have and should have done.
.
Coach John Beilein should have:
• Tried and stop the hemorrhaging by calling timeouts to psychologically realign his team to the common purpose: “win the game”.
• Develop a game plan that capitalized on Villanova’s weaknesses and debilitated their strength, (the Kansas University semi-finals was a perfect scenario).
• Become more adaptable and adjustable with a deeper bench level and talent specialization, three-point threat and a defensive Fort Knox type of player. (The team did well but failed to adapt, defensively and slow to react offensively; where was the sense of urgency?)
• He should have known that Donte DiVincenzo was a threat that needed to be neutralized (very badly executed).
• He should have strategize and hoped that Jay Wright would not have recognized the chess strategy that would keep Brunson on the court. (Instead, Wright recognized it and benched him). Keeping Brunson off the court was the worst mistake/error that Coach Beilein could have fathomed, because in that championship game on April 2, the Wildcats did not seem to be a better team with Brunson on the court. (The errant inbound pass by Donte gives proof, and the wide open lay-up to put him in double figures, were proof).
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